Constituency
30. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-FARAKKA
INC 46.6%won by 12.4%IND 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.5% to 12.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.9% of the vote between them, up from 72.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
23,230
Margin
2,873
12.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MAHAMMAD GIASUDDINIndian National Congress · INC10,83546.6%
- 2SABIRUDDIN BISWASIndependent · IND7,96234.3%
- 3NEZAMUDDIN AHAMADIndependent · IND3,11413.4%
- 4MAHAMMAD AZIZUR RAHMANIndependent · IND1,3195.7%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −12.1%
- INC share
- 48.6% → 46.6%
- IND share
- 24.2% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —